Gene Simmons
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1,552 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Dec
Gene Simmons’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a dead fish, and you've got to kiss this thing and do other godly things to it. That has to do with where the sun don't shine.
Yeah, because you always do what she says.
I don't... Want to pour cold water in your face. But anyone who says you don't need the money is a loser. Your ears actually hear you say those things. And then you prevent your mind from literally it's been proven over and over again that the words you say will affect you either good or bad. I didn't say you didn't want the money. I said you didn't need the money.
No, no, everybody needs the money. And I'll explain to you why. Warren Buffett, the richest guys in the world, and they are all guys who earned it anyway, get up every day and they go to work to do one thing, make more money. You are the gerbil on the merry-go-round, but you're alive. You're supposed to move or you're dead if you don't have a reason.
Look, we can't give birth despite what some people may think. That's called being on crack. So we can't give birth. We don't have menstrual cycle. What else do we do except work? It's the only, oh, she's shaking her head. See, shouldn't talk about that. No, we do have menstrual cycles. No, we don't. So the only thing we can do is, you know, the cart, the horse that pulls the cart.
And if you're not pulling the cart, what's your excuse for living? What are you supposed to do?
What easy? Doing nothing is easy, but you also don't make money. It's harder. It's harder for me to do nothing.
Yeah. in your estimation, for your life, of having enough money where you don't need more? Not really, and that's the problem. Why is that a problem?
But you're mixing apples with pears. What has nothing to do with it? Yeah, the more you work, the less time you get with your kids. Yeah, but they're too young to give a fuck. I don't know. When they get older. I'm not sure. We have two kids.
And the first five years or so is a blank. Hey, remember that time when Santa Claus got... Nope. Yeah, that trip to Disney is not for you. And again, in the old days, dad, almost without exception, would get up at the crack of dawn and go out and work. There's no such thing as, I've got to spend more time with the children. No, your job is to go out there and provide for the family.
Talking about the soon-to-be trillionaire, believe it or not, Elon Musk, he will be the first trillionaire legally, not Putin or anybody else. Yeah, right. And he's got 12 kids and who knows how many... Terrible relationships with a few of them, too. Well... Unfortunately. So is life. I'm not here to judge or anything. Just make the observation that you can be a nice person or a horrible person.
So let's say you're an asshole multi-billionaire who never gave a dime to charity. But that person who built... palaces for himself and bought schooners and other useless objects for the rest of us, still had to hire people because he's not going to build his own boat or mansion.
He hired people, and even though he's an asshole, he gave them jobs which enabled them to feed their families and put a roof over their head. Even the asshole that never contributed to charity is more important than you would ever imagine. They're job creators and all that. Job creator, but is that the highest? It sounded like I was finished, but I wasn't.
Well, you're either you live in the planet with other people and capitalism doesn't work if other people aren't working alongside. You know, if I make all the money in the world and I put it in a box and put it under the bed, nothing happens. In fact, inflation kicks in by less and less for the amount of money you have. It is only like running water. The fact that it runs keeps it fresh.
Capitalism is based on the idea of Let's say I don't like you and I'm not going to lend you a dime and all that stuff. You're still providing a service and you're charging for that, whatever it is that you do. No. If you're going to be an asshole, it's still better to be a rich, miserable asshole and not to be flippant because I'm not. I really do. I give to charity and philanthropy.
Last year it was about two and a half million. But a poor person never gave me a job. That's kind of a stunning, horrible thing to say. It is, yeah, but I follow. But it's the rich people that cause economies to flourish. That 1%. They create jobs. They build skyscrapers. The city doesn't have enough money. They do bonds. They work in banks.
And they loan money to people who don't have enough money. What if you could get richer without spending all your time working?
Is that what you think you would do if you weren't working all the time?
Well, you're mixing other people with me.
It's the love of labor. It's the idea that, again, not having the ability or facility to give birth, I don't have a purpose in life other than producing, making money. Even if I give all the money away or buy my mother the hip operation she needs or— Your mom's still around? No. She lived to be 94. The idea, though, applies to everybody. Without money, you can't do anything.
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